Gemstone

GemStone/S is computer software, an application framework that was first available for the programming language Smalltalk as an object database. It is proprietary commercial software.

==Company history== GemStone Systems was founded on March 1, 1982, as Servio Logic, to build a database machine based on a set theory model. Ian Huang instigated the founding, as the technology adviser to the CEO of Sampoerna Holdings (Putera Sampoerna), by recruiting the following team, consisting of: Frank Bouton - President, who was the cofounder of Floating Point Systems Inc Dr. Michael Mulder - Vice President of Engineering, who was the Group Manager for Advanced Processor Design at Sperry Univac and Principal Architect for the Univac 1180 mainframe Steve Ivy - Vice President of Operation, who was a senior manager at Tektronix Leonard Yuen - Vice President, Business Development, who was the Development Manager for the IBM DB2 database Dr. George Copeland - Chief Architect, who was the Senior Staff Engineer at the Advanced Development Group in Tektronix Steve Redfield - Chief Engineer, who was the Chief Engineer for the Intel 80286 microprocessor Alan Purdy - who was a Staff Engineer at Tektronix Bob Bretl - who was a software engineering manager at Tektronix Signal Processing Systems Allen Otis - who was also with Tektronix John Telford - who was a software engineering manager from Electro Scientific Industries Monty Williams